The island, when you feel like leaving the pool
Nothing on the island is more than a couple of hours away. The team arranges the boat, the driver and the guide, and everything starts from the gate — so a day out means getting in a car, not organising one. Most trips are back in time for a swim before dinner.
The reef around the private island, and the best snorkelling within reach of the villa. Dolphins turn up more often than not on the way back.
Carved doors, the old spice market and the slave-trade memorial. Lunch somewhere shaded, then the sunset from the seafront.
The last stand of the red colobus monkey, which lives nowhere else on earth, plus a boardwalk through the mangroves.
Cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and vanilla growing where they smell strongest. You taste everything, and lunch is cooked with it.
A strip of white sand that appears at low tide and is gone by evening. Grilled fish, a cool box, nobody else.
The south coast, for the dolphins and the oldest mosque in East Africa, dating to the twelfth century.
Send us your dates and we will pencil in whatever you fancy, so the good days are already held when you land.
